Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Editors-in-Chief

Gening Jiang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Douglas J. Mathisen

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Chang Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hon Chi Suen, MBBS, FACS

Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Associate Editor

Michael Lanuti, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Editorial Board

Ghulam Abbas, MD, MHCM, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Hiroyuki Adachi, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Antonio Alvarez, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain

Mara B. Antonoff, MD

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Omar Awais, DO

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Charles T. Bakhos, MD, MS, FACS

Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Jean-Marc Baste, MD, PhD

Surgical Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

Elizabeth Belcher, PhD, MRCP, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK

Mark F. Berry, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Pietro Bertoglio, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Faiz Y. Bhora, MD

Health Quest Health System, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Mark I. Block, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, FL, USA

Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Ernest G. Chan, MD, MPH

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Malcolm M. DeCamp, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill, USA

Lieven Depypere

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of chronic diseases, metabolism and ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Patrick Dorn, MD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS

Senior Assistant Professor, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Haytham Elgharably, MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Irmina A. Elliott, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Florian J. Fintelmann

Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Henning A. Gaissert

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

Shawn S. Groth, MD, MS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

J. W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH, MHL, FRCS, FACS, FCCP

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Haruaki Hino, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yin P. Hung, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Ian Hunt, MD, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan

Taryne A. Imai, MD, MEHP, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Queen's Healthcare System, Honolulu, HI, USA

Christopher F. Janowak, MD, FACS

Section of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Hyun Woo Jeon, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Mohamed K. Kamel

Department of Surgery, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Hirohisa Kato, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okitama General Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Samuel S. Kim, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Gregor J. Kocher, MD, PD, MBA (IHM), MEBTS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Seth B. Krantz, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL, USA

Richard Lazzaro, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Moishe Liberman

CETOC-CHUM Endoscopic Tracheobronchial and Oesophageal Center; Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Jules Lin, MD, FACS

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Matthias Loebe, MD, PhD, FACC, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Transplant and Mechanical Support, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Jay M. Lee, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

George Makdisi, MD, FACS, EMBA, MS, MPH

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tucson Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, USA

Alessio Vincenzo Mariolo, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IMM-Curie-Montsouris Thoracic Institute, Paris, France

Emmanuel Martinod, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Avicenne Hospital, SMBH Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Nord, Paris, France

Donna E. Maziak, MDCM, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Surgical Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ottawa Hospital-General Division, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

John D. Mitchell, MD

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

Laureano Molins, MD

Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clínic University Hospital, Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain

Tomohiro Murakawa, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Nagarajan Muthialu

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

Kentaro Noda, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Nikhil Panda, MD

Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Francesco Puma, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy

Mohamed Rahouma, MD, PhD, MSc, MS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA; Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

Ravi Rajaram, MD, MSc, FACS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. USA

George Rakovich, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Janani S. Reisenauer

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Alvin. Justin Rucker, MD, MPH

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Gary Schwartz

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Elliot L. Servais, MD, FACS

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Burlington, MA, USA

Norihisa Shigemura, MD, PhD

Cardiothoracic Transplant Division, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Shiono, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Alan D. L. SIHOE, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM

Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

Sandra Starnes, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Matthew A. Steliga, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

Monisha Sudarshan, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC

Department of Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, INOVA, Schar Cancer Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA

Marcus Taylor, MBChB, MRCS, MSc, MBA, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK

Davide Tosi, MD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Nirmal Veeramachaneni, MD

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

Federico Venuta

Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy

Wickii T. Vigneswaran, MD, MBA, FACS, FRCSC, FRCS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA

Jon O. Wee

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Benjamin Wei, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

Stefan Welter, MD

Department of Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer, Germany

Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRCSEd

Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Jane Yanagawa, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Managing Editors

Haifeng Wang, MD, PhD